Dear colleagues:

The Department of Medicine is thrilled to introduce the incoming 2025–2026 Transitional Year Residency program interns! This rising class of 31 candidates will begin their PGY1 year with us this July.

Match Day is an exciting day in the careers of young physicians, and it represents the culmination of their hard work over four or more years of medical school training. 

Our incoming class includes:

• One Transitional Anesthesia Track
• Six Transitional Dermatology Track
• Nine Transitional Neurology Track
• One Transitional Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) Track
• Eight Transitional Radiology Track
• Six Transitional Ophthalmology Track

This year, we have four international candidates and five candidates from Emory University School of Medicine.

See the full list below. 

Transitional Anesthesia Track

• Nita Chai, Emory University School of Medicine

Transitional Dermatology Track

• Sarah Brooks, University of Miami Leonard M Miller School of Medicine
• John Christiansen, Mercer University School of Medicine
• Turkan Banu Karatas, Emory University School of Medicine
• Rayad Shams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
• Victoria Shi, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine
• Vedaja Surapaneni, Emory University School of Medicine

Transitional Neurology Track

• Lauren Cancio, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
• Laila Hasnain, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
• Diamond King, Eastern Virginia Medical School
• Simon Miller, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
• Timothy Moore, Mercer University School of Medicine
• Anna Claire Osei-Akoto, Emory University School of Medicine
• Jared Smith, Indiana University School of Medicine
• Esme Trahair, Duke University School of Medicine
• Andrea Zhang, University of Miami Leonard M Miller School of Medicine

Transitional Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) Track

• Mahtab Darvish, Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Transitional Radiology Track

• Khalil Abdulrauf, University of Leeds
• Dana Alkhulaifat, University of Jordan
• Pradipta Debnath, University of Nottingham
• Miguel Devonish, Morehouse School of Medicine
• Tae Youn Kim, Tufts University School of Medicine
• Sneha Mittal, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
• Michael Okafor, Morehouse School of Medicine
• Yvonne Su, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Transitional Ophthalmology Track

• K'Mani Blyden, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
• Riley Duke, University of Alabama School of Medicine
• Harrison Huang, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• Alison Martin, Emory University School of Medicine
• Michel Shahid, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia
• Natalie Sullivan, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine

*Names in light blue indicate Emory Medical Students.

The DOM Office of Education looks forward to welcoming our new residents to the Emory family and supporting them to become the next generation of healthcare leaders. Over the course of their training, they will be exposed to a comprehensive, innovative medical curriculum that reflects the Emory University School of Medicine’s tripartite mission of education, research, and clinical care.

Click here or the button below to review all our program match lists, including our Categorical, ABIM Research Track, Primary Care, Transitional, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program, and Internal Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Program. Congratulations to our incoming residents!

Sincerely,

Carlos del Rio, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine

Manpreet S. Malik, MD
Associate Professor and Program Director-Transitional Year,

Department of Medicine

Kyle Pate, MD
Associate Program Director

Kymberly McMillan
Program Coordinator

Match Day 2025 Coverage

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